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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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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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