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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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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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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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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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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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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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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Whatever is, is right.
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