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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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