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Genius creates, and taste preserves.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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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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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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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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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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