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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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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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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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