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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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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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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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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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Health consists with temperance alone.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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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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