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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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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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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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