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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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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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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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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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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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