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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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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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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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