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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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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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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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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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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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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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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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