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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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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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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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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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