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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.
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 touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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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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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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True self-love and social are the same.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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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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