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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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