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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 world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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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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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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