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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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