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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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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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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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