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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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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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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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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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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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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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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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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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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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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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