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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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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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