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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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