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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.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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