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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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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 good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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