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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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