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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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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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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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