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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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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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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
Alexander Pope