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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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