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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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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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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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