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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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