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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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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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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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