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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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The laughers are a majority.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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