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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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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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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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