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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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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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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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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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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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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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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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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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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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