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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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Education forms the common mind.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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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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