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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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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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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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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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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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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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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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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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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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