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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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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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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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True self-love and social are the same.
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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