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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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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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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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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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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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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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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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