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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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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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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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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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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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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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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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