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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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