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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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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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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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