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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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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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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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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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