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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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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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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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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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