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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
Alexander Pope
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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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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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
Alexander Pope
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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