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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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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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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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