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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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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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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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True self-love and social are the same.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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