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True self-love and social are the same.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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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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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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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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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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