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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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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 search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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