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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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