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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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