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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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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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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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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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