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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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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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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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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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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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