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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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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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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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