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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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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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