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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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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
Alexander Pope
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
Alexander Pope
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
Alexander Pope
The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
Alexander Pope
I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
Alexander Pope
Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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