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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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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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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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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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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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