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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.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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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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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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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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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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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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