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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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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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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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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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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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