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There is a majesty in simplicity.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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