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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.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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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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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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