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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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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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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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