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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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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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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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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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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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