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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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