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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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 much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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