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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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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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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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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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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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