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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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By the streams that ever flow, By the fragrant winds that blow O'er the Elysian flow'rs; By those happy souls who dwell In yellow mead of asphodel.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose,
Who says in verse what others say in prose;
Yet let me show a poet's of some weight,
And (though no soldier) useful to the state,
What will a child learn sooner than a song?
What better teach a foreigner the tongue?
What's long or short, each accent where to place
And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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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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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents, or my own?
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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Born:
May 21, 1688
Died:
May 30, 1744
(aged 56)
Bio:
Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer.
Known for:
The Rape of the Lock
An Essay on Man
An Essay on Criticism
The Dunciad
Eloisa to Abelard
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