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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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