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There is a majesty in simplicity.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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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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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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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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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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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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