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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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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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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Hope springs eternal.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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