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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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the City
Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
Alexander Pope
Cavil you may, but never criticise.
Alexander Pope
Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
Alexander Pope
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
Alexander Pope
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
Alexander Pope
An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
Alexander Pope
