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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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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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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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