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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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