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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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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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