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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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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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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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