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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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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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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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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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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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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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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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