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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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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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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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