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Expression is the dress of thought.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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