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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The laughers are a majority.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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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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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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