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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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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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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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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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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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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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