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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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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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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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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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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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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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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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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.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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