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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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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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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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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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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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