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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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

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

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God helps them that help themselves.

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Source
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Medium
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Era
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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

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Actor
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Source
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Medium
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Genre
Crime (film) Epic (film) Crime Epic
Statement Type
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Language
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Time
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Another quote from Age of Enlightenment

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan

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State of nature Barbarism Civilization

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Thomas Hobbes
Source
Leviathan
Genre
Political literature Philosophical literature
Language
English
Time
1651 1650s 17th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Original Citation

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 13.