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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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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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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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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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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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