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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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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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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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