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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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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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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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