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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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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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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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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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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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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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