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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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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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