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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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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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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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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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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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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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