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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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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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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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