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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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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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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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