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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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