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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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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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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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