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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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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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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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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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