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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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