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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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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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