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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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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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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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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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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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