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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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