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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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