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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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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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