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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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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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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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