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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my 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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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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