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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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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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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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