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No creature smarts so little as a fool.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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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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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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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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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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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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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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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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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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