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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
Alexander Pope
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
Alexander Pope
Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
Alexander Pope
For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
Alexander Pope
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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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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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
Alexander Pope
You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
Alexander Pope
Virtue alone is happiness below.
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