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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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