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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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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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