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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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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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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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