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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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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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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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So perish all who do the like again.
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