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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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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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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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