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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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