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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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