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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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