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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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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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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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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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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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