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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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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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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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