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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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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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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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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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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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