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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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