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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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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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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
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