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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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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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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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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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