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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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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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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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