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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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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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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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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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