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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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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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