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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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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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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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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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