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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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