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Truth needs not flowers of speech.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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So perish all who do the like again.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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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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