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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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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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