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The villain's censure is extorted praise.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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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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