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Never find fault with the absent.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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