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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
Alexander Pope
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
Alexander Pope
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Alexander Pope
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Alexander Pope
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.
Alexander Pope
An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
Alexander Pope
No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
Alexander Pope
When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
Alexander Pope
Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
Alexander Pope
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
Alexander Pope
Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
Alexander Pope
