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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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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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Whatever is, is right.
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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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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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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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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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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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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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