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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
Alexander Pope
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
Alexander Pope
The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
Alexander Pope
Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
Alexander Pope
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
Alexander Pope
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
Alexander Pope
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
Alexander Pope
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
Alexander Pope
Every professional was once an amateur.
Alexander Pope
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Alexander Pope
Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
Alexander Pope
