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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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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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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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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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The laughers are a majority.
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