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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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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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