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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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