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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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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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