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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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