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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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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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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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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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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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