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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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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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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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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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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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