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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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This long disease, my life.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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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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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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