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No creature smarts so little as a fool.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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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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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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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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