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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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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
Alexander Pope
What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
Alexander Pope
Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
Alexander Pope
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
Alexander Pope
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope
Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
Alexander Pope
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope
A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
Alexander Pope
Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
Alexander Pope
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Alexander Pope
Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
Alexander Pope
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
Alexander Pope
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
Alexander Pope
