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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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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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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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