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«Is there a parson, much bemused in beer,/ A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer,/ A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross/ Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
«The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
«An honest man is the noblest work of God.»
«For observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for the observer's sake»
«Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigued I said./ Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead./ The dog-star rages!»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
«Shakespeare . . ./ For gain not glory, winged his roving flight,/ And grew immortal in his own despite.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
«True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed,/ Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
«Were there one whose fires/ True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires;/ Blest with each talent and each art to please,/ And born to write, converse, and live with ease»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
«If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.»
«Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
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