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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Hope springs eternal.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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