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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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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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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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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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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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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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