Editing Epigram (section)

==Poetic epigrams==
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{{poem quote
|text=What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul. 
|sign=[[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]
|title="Epigram", 1809
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{{poem quote
|text=Some can gaze and not be sick
But I could never learn the trick.
There's this to say for blood and breath;
They give a man a taste for death.
|sign=[[A. E. Housman]]
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{{poem quote
|text=Little strokes
Fell great oaks.
|sign=[[Benjamin Franklin]]
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{{poem quote
|text=I am His Highness' dog at [[Kew Palace|Kew]];
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
|sign=[[Alexander Pope]]
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{{poem quote
|text=I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
|sign=[[Hilaire Belloc]]
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{{poem quote
|text=I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
|sign=[[Nikos Kazantzakis]]
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{{poem quote
|text=To define the beautiful is to misunderstand it.
|sign=Charles Robert Anon ([[Fernando Pessoa]])
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{{poem quote
|text=This Humanist whom no belief constrained
Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.
|sign=[[J. V. Cunningham]]
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{{poem quote
|text=All things pass
Love and mankind is grass.
|sign=[[Stevie Smith]]
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{{poem quote
|text=Here lies my wife: here let her lie!
Now she's at rest{{spaced ndash}}and so am I.
|sign=[[John Dryden]]
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Epigram about [[John Milton]] (many poets commented on Milton, including Dryden):<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.umsl.edu/~gradyf/2310/miltonrep1.htm|title = John Dryden "Epigram on Milton" (1688)}}</ref>
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|text=Three Poets, in three distant Ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.
The First in loftiness of thought surpassed;
The Next in Majesty; in both the Last.
The force of Nature could no farther go:
To make a third she joined the former two.
|sign=[[John Dryden]]
|title="Epigram on Milton", 1688
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Epigram about [[Charles II of England]]:
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|text=We have a pretty witty king,
Whose word no man relies on.
He never said a foolish thing,
And never did a wise one.
|sign=[[John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester]]
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