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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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