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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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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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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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