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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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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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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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True self-love and social are the same.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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