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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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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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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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