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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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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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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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