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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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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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