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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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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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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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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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