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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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