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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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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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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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