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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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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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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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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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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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