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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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