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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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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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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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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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