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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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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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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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