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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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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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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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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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