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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Never find fault with the absent.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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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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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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