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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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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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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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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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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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