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Order is heaven's first law.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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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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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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