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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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