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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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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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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
Alexander Pope
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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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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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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