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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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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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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope