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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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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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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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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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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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