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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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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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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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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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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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