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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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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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