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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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