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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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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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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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