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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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