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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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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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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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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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