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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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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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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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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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