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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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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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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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