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Truth needs not flowers of speech.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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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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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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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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