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No craving void left aching in the soul.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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