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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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