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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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