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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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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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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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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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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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