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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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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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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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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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