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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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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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