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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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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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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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