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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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