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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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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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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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