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Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Alexander Pope
All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
Alexander Pope
A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
Alexander Pope
Health consists with temperance alone.
Alexander Pope
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Alexander Pope
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
Alexander Pope
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Alexander Pope
To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope
Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
Alexander Pope
Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
Alexander Pope
By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
Alexander Pope
What will a child learn sooner than a song?
Alexander Pope
Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
Alexander Pope
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
Alexander Pope
To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
Alexander Pope
Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
Alexander Pope
