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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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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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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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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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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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