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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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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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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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