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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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