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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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