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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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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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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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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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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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