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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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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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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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