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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
Literary Historian
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the City
Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
Alexander
I Pope
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Wit
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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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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I have more zeal than wit.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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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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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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