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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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