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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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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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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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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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