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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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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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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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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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