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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Education forms the common mind.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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