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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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