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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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