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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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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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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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