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

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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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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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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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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