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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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