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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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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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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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