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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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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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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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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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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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