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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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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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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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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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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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