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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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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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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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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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