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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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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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