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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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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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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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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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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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