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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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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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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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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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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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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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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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