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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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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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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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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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