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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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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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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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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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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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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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