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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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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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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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