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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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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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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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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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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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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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