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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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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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