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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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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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