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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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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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