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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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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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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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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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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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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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