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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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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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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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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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