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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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