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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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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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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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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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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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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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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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