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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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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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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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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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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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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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