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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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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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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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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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