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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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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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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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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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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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