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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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