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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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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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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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