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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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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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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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