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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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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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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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