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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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