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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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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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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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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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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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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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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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