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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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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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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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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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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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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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