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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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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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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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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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