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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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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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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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