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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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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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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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