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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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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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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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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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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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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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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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