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Alexander Pope

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    A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.

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    A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

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    A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

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    Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

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    A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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    A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

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    A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

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    A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.

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    Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

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    A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

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    A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

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    A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

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    A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

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    Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

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    A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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    A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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    A little learning is a dangerous thing.

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    A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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    A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

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    All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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    All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

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    All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

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    All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

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    All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

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    All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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    All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

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    All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

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    All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

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    A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

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    A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

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    A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

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    Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

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    A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

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    Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

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    A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

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    An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

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    And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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    And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

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    And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

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    And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

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    And die of nothing but a rage to live.

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    And empty heads console with empty sound.

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    And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.

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    And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

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    And make each day a critic on the last.

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    And more than echoes talk along the walls.

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    And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

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    And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

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    And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

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    An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.