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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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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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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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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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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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