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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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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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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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