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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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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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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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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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