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Every professional was once an amateur.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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