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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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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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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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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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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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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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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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