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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.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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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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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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