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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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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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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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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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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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