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• The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

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  Government, Order, Pieces

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes”, p.227

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• The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

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  Creativity, Destiny, Creative

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• For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

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  Bird, Natural, Prey

  Alexander Pope (1778). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators”, p.290

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• 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

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  Beauty, Eye, Joints

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester) (1751). “The Works of Alexander Pope Esq”, p.101

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• Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

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  Lying, Fame, Deathbed

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• Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

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  Friendship, Merit, Praise

  Homerus, Alexander Pope (1718). “The Iliad of Homer”

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• A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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  Age, Cards, Youth

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To a Lady' (1735) l. 241

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• A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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  Truth, Honesty, Care

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.120

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• I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

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  Dog, Praying, Highness

  "Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness" (1738) See Nursery Rhymes 15

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• That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

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  Next, Firsts, Variety

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.98

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• Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

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  Children, Men, Simplicity

  'Epitaph: On Mr Gay in Westminster Abbey' (1733)

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• Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

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  Lying, Men, Given

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.336

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• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

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  Dance, Art, Moving

  "The Works of Alexander Pope".

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• Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

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  Writing, Knowledge, Fruit

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.15

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• A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

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  Philosophy, Men, Practice

  Alexander Pope (1956). “The Correspondence”

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• Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

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  Loyalty, Dog, Silly

  Alexander Pope (1737). “Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope: And Several of His Friends”, p.53

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• We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

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  Men, Laughing, Humanity

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.230

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• That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood... All partial Evil, universal Good.

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  Art, Stars, Evil

  Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

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• The laughers are a majority.

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  Laughter, Majority

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• Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

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  Failure, Pride, Men

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.54

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• Beauty draws us with a single hair.

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  Hair, Draws, Tresses

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 2, l. 27

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• Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

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  Father, Beer, Soul

  Alexander Pope (1854). “The Poetical Works”, p.105

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• The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!

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  Lying, Graves, Oppressed

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers”, p.134

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• Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

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  Animal, Blood, Kitchen

  "The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-eating". Book by Howard Williams, p. 132, archive.org. 1883.

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• Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

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  Writing, Parent, Ink

  Alexander Pope (2002). “Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.178, Routledge

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