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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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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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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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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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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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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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