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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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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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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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