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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

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 life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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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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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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