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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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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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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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