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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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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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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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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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Education forms the common mind.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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