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

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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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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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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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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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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