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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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