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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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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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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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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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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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