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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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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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