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And not a vanity is given in vain.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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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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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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Whatever is, is right.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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