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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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