Alexander Pope

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Who shall decide when doctors disagree?

Men should be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! 

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.

Praise is underserved, it is satire in disguise.

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.