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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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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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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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