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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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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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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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