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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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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 sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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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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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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