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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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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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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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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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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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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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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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