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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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