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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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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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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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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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