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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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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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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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