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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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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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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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