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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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