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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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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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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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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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