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It is sure the hardest science to forget!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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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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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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