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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.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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