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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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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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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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