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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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