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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
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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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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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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