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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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