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So upright Quakers please both man and God.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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