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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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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.
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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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Hope springs eternal.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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