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Expression is the dress of thought.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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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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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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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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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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