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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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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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