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Genius creates, and taste preserves.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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True self-love and social are the same.
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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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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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The laughers are a majority.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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