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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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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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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Hope springs eternal.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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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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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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