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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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