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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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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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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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