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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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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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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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