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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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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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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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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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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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