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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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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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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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