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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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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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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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