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This long disease, my life.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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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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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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