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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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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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