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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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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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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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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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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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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!
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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