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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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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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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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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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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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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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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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