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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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The laughers are a majority.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
Alexander Pope
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
Alexander Pope
Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
Alexander Pope
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
Alexander Pope
A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
Alexander Pope
Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
Alexander Pope
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
Alexander Pope
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
Alexander Pope
Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
Alexander Pope
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
Alexander Pope
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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