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Every professional was once an amateur.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
Alexander Pope
The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
Alexander Pope
Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
Alexander Pope
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Alexander Pope
Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
Alexander Pope
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Alexander Pope
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
Alexander Pope
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
Alexander Pope
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander Pope
Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
Alexander Pope
A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
Alexander Pope
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
Alexander Pope
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
Alexander Pope
So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
Alexander Pope
Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
Alexander Pope
See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
Alexander Pope
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
Alexander Pope
And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
Alexander Pope
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
Alexander Pope
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
Alexander Pope