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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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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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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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