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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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