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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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