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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.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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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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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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