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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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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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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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