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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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