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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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Whatever is, is right.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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This long disease, my life.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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