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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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