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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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