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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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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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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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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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