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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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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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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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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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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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