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Cavil you may, but never criticise.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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I have more zeal than wit.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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