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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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