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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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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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