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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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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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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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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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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Education forms the common mind.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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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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