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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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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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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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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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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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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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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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