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

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 is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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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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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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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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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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