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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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