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True self-love and social are the same.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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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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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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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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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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