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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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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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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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