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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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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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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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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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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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