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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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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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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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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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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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