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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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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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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander Pope
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
Alexander Pope
