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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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