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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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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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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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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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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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