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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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