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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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