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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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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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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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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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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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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Hope springs eternal.
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