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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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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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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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