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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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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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