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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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This long disease, my life.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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