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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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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.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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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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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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