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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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How vast a memory has Love!
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Most women have no characters at all.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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Whatever is, is right.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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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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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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