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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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