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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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