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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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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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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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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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