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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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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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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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