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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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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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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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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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