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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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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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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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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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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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