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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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