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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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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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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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