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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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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 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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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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