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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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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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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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