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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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