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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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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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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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