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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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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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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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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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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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No more was seen the human form divine.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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