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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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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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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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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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