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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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