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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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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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