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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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