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Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
Alexander Pope
Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
Alexander Pope
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
Alexander Pope
Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
Alexander Pope
But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
Alexander Pope
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
Alexander Pope
Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
Alexander Pope
The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
Alexander Pope
Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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