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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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