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No more was seen the human form divine.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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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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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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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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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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