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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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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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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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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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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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