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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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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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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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