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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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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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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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This long disease, my life.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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The laughers are a majority.
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