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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
Alexander Pope
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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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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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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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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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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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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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