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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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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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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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