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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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Never find fault with the absent.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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