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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Whatever is, is right.
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