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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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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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