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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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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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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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