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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 family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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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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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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