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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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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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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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