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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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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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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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