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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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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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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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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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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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