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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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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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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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