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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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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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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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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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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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