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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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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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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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