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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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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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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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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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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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