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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.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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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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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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