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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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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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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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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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