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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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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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