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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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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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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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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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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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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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