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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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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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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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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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