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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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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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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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