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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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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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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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