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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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