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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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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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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Education forms the common mind.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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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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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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