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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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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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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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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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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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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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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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