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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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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
Alexander Pope
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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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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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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