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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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