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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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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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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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This long disease, my life.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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