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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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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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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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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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