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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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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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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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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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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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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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