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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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