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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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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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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
Alexander Pope
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Alexander Pope
The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Whatever is, is right.
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
Alexander Pope
A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
Alexander Pope
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
Alexander Pope
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Alexander Pope
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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