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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Hope springs eternal.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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True self-love and social are the same.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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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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A field of glory is a field for all.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
Alexander Pope