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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em 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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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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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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