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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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