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This long disease, my life.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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