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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
Literary Historian
Poet
Translator
the City
Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
Alexander
I Pope
Profession
Every
Amateur
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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