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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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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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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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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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