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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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