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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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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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