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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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Whatever is, is right.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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