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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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The laughers are a majority.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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