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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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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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