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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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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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