How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

Alexander Pope

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Death of friends Friends Death Loss Mourning

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Letters of Alexander Pope

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1732 1730s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Occupation

Poet Writer

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Citation

Pope, Alexander and John Arbuthnot. Letter to Jonathan Swift. 5 Dec. 1732.

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Power may justly be compared to a great River, while kept within its due Bonds, is both Beautiful and Useful; but when it overflows its Banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemm'd, it bears down all before it, and brings Destruction and Desolation wherever it comes. If then this is the Nature of Power, let us at least do our Duty, and like wise Men (who value Freedom) use our utmost Care to support Liberty, the only Bulwark against lawless Power, which in all Ages has sacrificed to it's wild Lust and boundless Ambition, the Blood of the best Men that ever liv'd.

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Andrew Hamilton
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English
Time
1735 1730s 18th century
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Citation

Hamilton, Andrew. Argument in John Peter Zenger Trial. 1735, New York's City Hall, New York, NY, USA.

Another quote about Death

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

Homer

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Topic
Slavery Death

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Homer
Source
The Odyssey
Medium
Poem
Genre
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Language
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Time
700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC
Era
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Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

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Current Citation

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Another quote from Age of Enlightenment

For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

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Topic
Credulity Human nature

Author

Francis Bacon
Source
Novum Organum
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Latin
Time
1620 1620s 17th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Original Citation

Bacon, Francis. Novum Organum. London: John Beale, 1620, bk. 1, no. 49.

Current Citation

Bacon, Francis. The New Organon. Translated by Michael Silverthorne. Cambridge UP, 2000, bk. 1, no. 49.