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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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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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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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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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