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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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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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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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