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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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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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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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