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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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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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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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