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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 young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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