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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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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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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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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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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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