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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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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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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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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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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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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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