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Passions are the gales of life.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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