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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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