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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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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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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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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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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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