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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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