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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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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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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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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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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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