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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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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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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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A field of glory is a field for all.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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