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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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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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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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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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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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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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