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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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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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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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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel takeāand sometimes tea.
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