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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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