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Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who heard it, made Enlargements too,In evry Ear it spread, on evry Tongue it grew.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before,
Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.
Physic of Metaphysic begs defence,
And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense!
See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
-Alexander Pope
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Absence
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
-Alexander Pope
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Action(s)
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Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
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Admiration
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Age
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill:
walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on,
and shoves you from the stage:
leave such to trifle with more grace and ease,
whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.
-Alexander Pope
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Ambition
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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America
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
-Alexander Pope
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Apathy
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix
-Alexander Pope, Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 101.
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Argument & Debate
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True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Art
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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
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Attitude
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Authors & Writing
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
-Alexander Pope
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Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Beauty
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Belief
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Change
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In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not the first by whom the New are try
-Alexander Pope, Essay On Criticism
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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
-Alexander Pope
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Chaos
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Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.
-Alexander Pope
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Character
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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
-Alexander Pope
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Chastity
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
-Alexander Pope
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Children
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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Books by and about Alexander Pope