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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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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 Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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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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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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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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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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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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