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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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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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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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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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