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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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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. 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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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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