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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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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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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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