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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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