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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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