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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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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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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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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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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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