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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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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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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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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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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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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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True self-love and social are the same.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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