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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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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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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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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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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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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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