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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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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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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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