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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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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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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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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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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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The laughers are a majority.
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
Alexander Pope
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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