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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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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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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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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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