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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
Alexander Pope
At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
Alexander Pope
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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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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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Alexander Pope
With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
Alexander Pope
Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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