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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear;
'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
Category: Age Author: Alexander Pope
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A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it.
Category: Business Author: Alexander Pope
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,
Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
Category: Dancing Author: Alexander Pope
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Category: God Author: Alexander Pope
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.
Category: Hmmm Author: Alexander Pope
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
Category: Insects Author: Alexander Pope
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Category: Intelligence Author: Alexander Pope
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Category: Kindness Author: Alexander Pope
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Category: Learning Author: Alexander Pope
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Category: Marriage Author: Alexander Pope
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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Category: Mistakes Author: Alexander Pope
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
Category: Money Author: Alexander Pope
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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Category: Perspective Author: Alexander Pope
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How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
Category: Science Author: Alexander Pope
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True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance,
As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Category: Writing Author: Alexander Pope Source: An Essay on Criticism
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