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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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