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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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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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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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