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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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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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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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