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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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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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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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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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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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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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