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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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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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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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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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