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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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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 pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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