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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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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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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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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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True self-love and social are the same.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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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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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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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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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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