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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.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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I have more zeal than wit.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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