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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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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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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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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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