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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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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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