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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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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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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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