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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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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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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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