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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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