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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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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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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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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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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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