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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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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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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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