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"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale." Alexander Pope
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"Order is heaven's first law." Alexander Pope
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"Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever." Alexander Pope
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"There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.''" Alexander Pope
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"The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more." Alexander Pope
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"Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!" Alexander Pope
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"One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit." Alexander Pope
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"To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor." Alexander Pope
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"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul." Alexander Pope
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"Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss." Alexander Pope
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"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense." Alexander Pope
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"Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?" Alexander Pope
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"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly." Alexander Pope
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"Gentle dullness ever loves a joke." Alexander Pope
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"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread." Alexander Pope
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"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use." Alexander Pope
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"All nature is but art unknown to thee." Alexander Pope
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"A little bit of knowledge" Alexander Pope
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"I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few." Alexander Pope
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"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature." Alexander Pope
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"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade." Alexander Pope
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