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

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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This long disease, my life.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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