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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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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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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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