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Order is heaven's first law.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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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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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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