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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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