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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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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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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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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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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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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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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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