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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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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 cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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