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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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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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