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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Alexander Pope
Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
Alexander Pope
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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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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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Alexander Pope
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope
For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Alexander Pope
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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