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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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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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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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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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