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

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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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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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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