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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Education forms the common mind.
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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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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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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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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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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