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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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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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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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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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