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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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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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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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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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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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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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