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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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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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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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