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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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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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