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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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