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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

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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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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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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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