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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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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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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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