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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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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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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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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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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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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
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This long disease, my life.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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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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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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