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Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel takeāand sometimes tea.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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