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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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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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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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