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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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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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