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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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