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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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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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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Whatever is, is right.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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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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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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