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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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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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