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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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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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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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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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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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