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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.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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