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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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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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