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

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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This long disease, my life.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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