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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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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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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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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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