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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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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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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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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 friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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