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True self-love and social are the same.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
Literary Historian
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Alexander I Pope
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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