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There is a majesty in simplicity.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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