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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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