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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
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True self-love and social are the same.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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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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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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