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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 lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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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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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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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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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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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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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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