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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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