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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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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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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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