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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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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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