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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.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Poet
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Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
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Purple
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Regal
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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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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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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