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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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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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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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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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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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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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