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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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