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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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