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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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