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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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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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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
Alexander Pope
Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander Pope
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
Alexander Pope
Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
Alexander Pope
What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
Alexander Pope
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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