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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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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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