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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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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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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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