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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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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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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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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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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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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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