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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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