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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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