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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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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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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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