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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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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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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Hope springs eternal.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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