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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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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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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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