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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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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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