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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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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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