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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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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.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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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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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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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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