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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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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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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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