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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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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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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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