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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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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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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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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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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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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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