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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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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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