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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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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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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel takeāand sometimes tea.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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