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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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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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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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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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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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