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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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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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