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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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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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