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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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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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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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