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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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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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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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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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