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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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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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