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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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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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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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