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An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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