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This long disease, my life.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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