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

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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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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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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