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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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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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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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