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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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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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Passions are the gales of life.
Alexander Pope
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
Alexander Pope
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
Alexander Pope
A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Alexander Pope
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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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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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
Alexander Pope
Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
Alexander Pope
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Alexander Pope
See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
Alexander Pope
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope
