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No more was seen the human form divine.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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