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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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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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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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