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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
Literary Historian
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Translator
the City
Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
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Feathers
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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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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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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