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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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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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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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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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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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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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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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