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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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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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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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