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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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