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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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